Background Events
(for Flight of the Dragon Kyn, Dragon’s Milk, and Sign of the Dove)
YEAR
EVENT
1*
Clutch “a” laid**
78
Clutch “b” laid
102
Kara born
99-106
Clutch “a” hatched
109
Landerath born
112
Granmyrborn
117
The Migration
121
Kara’s daughter born
141
Kara’s granddaughter born (Kaeldra’s mother)
Kara’s daughter dies in childbirth
146
Ryfenn (Lyf’s mother) born
155
Clutch “c” laid in land of exile?
160
Kaeldra born
164
Kara dies
Kaeldra and her mother flee Kragrom Mirymborn
165
Kaeldra and her mother arrive in Elythia Kaeldra’s mother dies
171
Lyf born
174
Bryam (Lyf’s father) dies
176
First hatchings from clutch “b” Kaeldra takes first draclings away
183
Last hatchings from clutch “b”
*Assigning the number one to this year is purely arbitrary.
**Dragon eggs incubate for 98-105 years; they are laid every 77 years. The hatching cycle lasts up to seven years.
Susan Fletcher says, “One day many years ago, while browsing in a little shop on Oregon’s coast, I came upon a small sculptured dragon. My husband saw it at the same time, and we both fell in love with it I secretly bought him the dragon for Christmas. He was delighted! He set it out on our living room table for all to see.
“Not long after that, I began writing a story about a girl who baby-sits dragons, As I wrote, the dragon sculpture came to stay with me in my bedroom office more and more often, until it lived there all the time.
“The next Christmas, I gave my husband a sculpture of a horse. On December 26, the horse was gone; he’d taken it to his office. I think he was afraid Yd start writing horse stories next.”
That first dragon story has now grown into a trilogy: Dragon’s Milk, Flight of the Dragon Kyn, and Sign of the Dove.
Susan Fletcher lives in Lake Oswego, Oregon, with her husband, her daughter, their cat, and a menagerie of sculpted dragons. (Her husband’s original dragon has moved back to the living room again.)
*Assigning the number one to this year is purely arbitrary.
**Dragon eggs incubate for 98-105 years; they are laid every 77 years. The hatching cycle lasts up to seven years.
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